CIPAce™ Capital Planning and Budgeting Solution

CIPAce™ delivers you the tools to plan, prioritize and strategically fund capital programs over any time frame.Does your organization have complex financing plans, different alternative scenarios, or support multiple interest groups?Let CIPAce™ manages them all for you.

Capital planning and budgeting is a complex process characterized by uncertain long term projections, political pressures, shortage of resources and demands on a wide range of expertise that requires both operational and financial knowhow.Capital funds are always limited, and the future is never certain.

Structuring a balanced capital plan requires you to coordinate information, analyze alternatives, and build consensus.Plans must remain flexible as needs and resources change.How to efficiently manage the capital planning and budgeting lifecycle while encompassing all factors into consideration is one of the biggest challenges faced by any capital planning professionals.Without a tool for dynamically managing processes and information, you risk making large capital investments for the wrong project at the wrong time.

Our Solution

CIPAce™ is a cloud-based solution that provides major organizations the tools necessary to manage the planning of multiple projects and programs over a long planning horizon.CIPAce™ facilitates the creation of a planning environment that can gather a wide variety of projects, impacts, priorities, and funding requirements that must be taken into account as part of the planning process.CIPAce™ application creates an environment where these impacts, priorities and requirements can be managed dynamically. Not only are fund projections and capital budgets captured, but also are the qualitative aspects such as legal requirements, environmental impacts, green initiatives, public safety, and operating impacts.Long-term, mid-term and short-term planning processes can be converged and managed under a unified planning framework.

Capital Project Submission - All proposals that pass a preliminary evaluation process will be submitted as a formal project candidate into the planning process.CIPAce™ Workflow Engine can support the automatic review and approval process with project submission and evaluation.